River (Grietje) Baars
@riverbaars.bsky.social
Sometimes irreverent, always antifascist, antiracist, antitrans-homo-whorephobic, etc. Writes, teaches and agitates about law, corporate capitalism, colonialism, queerly. ACAB, Free Palestine!, Join a union!
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📣Today brilliant Co-Director @suzanarahde.bsky.social passed her PhD with no corrections, the highest accolade in British academia. Massive congrats Dr! 🙏 engaged & inspired examiners Prof. Ruth Fletcher & Dr Thomas Bennett! 🍾✊🤓📚 @riverbaars.bsky.social @sabrinagermain.bsky.social Dr Tawhida Ahmad
June 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📣Today brilliant Co-Director @suzanarahde.bsky.social passed her PhD with no corrections, the highest accolade in British academia. Massive congrats Dr! 🙏 engaged & inspired examiners Prof. Ruth Fletcher & Dr Thomas Bennett! 🍾✊🤓📚 @riverbaars.bsky.social @sabrinagermain.bsky.social Dr Tawhida Ahmad
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Still doesn't feel like it's real, but I submitted my thesis! 🙃
Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisors, @riverbaars.bsky.social, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Tawhida Ahmed.
A big shoutout to @marinavelickovic.bsky.social, for her engagement, notes and our writing sessions.
Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisors, @riverbaars.bsky.social, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Tawhida Ahmed.
A big shoutout to @marinavelickovic.bsky.social, for her engagement, notes and our writing sessions.
May 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Still doesn't feel like it's real, but I submitted my thesis! 🙃
Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisors, @riverbaars.bsky.social, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Tawhida Ahmed.
A big shoutout to @marinavelickovic.bsky.social, for her engagement, notes and our writing sessions.
Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisors, @riverbaars.bsky.social, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Tawhida Ahmed.
A big shoutout to @marinavelickovic.bsky.social, for her engagement, notes and our writing sessions.
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Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!
February 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!
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All SOAS Students Welcome!!
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
March 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
All SOAS Students Welcome!!
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
I've booked tickets for Trans Femme Futures (hybrid) at SOAS University of London on Tuesday 25th February 2025! Come join me!! www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDLMMF...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I've booked tickets for Trans Femme Futures (hybrid) at SOAS University of London on Tuesday 25th February 2025! Come join me!! www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDLMMF...
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Comrades! 😻
We extended our deadline - you can submit your abstracts by Monday, 24/2!
📣 We are not expecting a new/finished paper/article/chapter. Send us something you are working on and would like to receive feedback.
We extended our deadline - you can submit your abstracts by Monday, 24/2!
📣 We are not expecting a new/finished paper/article/chapter. Send us something you are working on and would like to receive feedback.
February 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Comrades! 😻
We extended our deadline - you can submit your abstracts by Monday, 24/2!
📣 We are not expecting a new/finished paper/article/chapter. Send us something you are working on and would like to receive feedback.
We extended our deadline - you can submit your abstracts by Monday, 24/2!
📣 We are not expecting a new/finished paper/article/chapter. Send us something you are working on and would like to receive feedback.
Are you QT? Do you HoMo? Submit to our call!! 💜✊💜
Exciting!! The QTHoMos are at it again, this time in Paris 💜
Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!
February 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Are you QT? Do you HoMo? Submit to our call!! 💜✊💜
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📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸
January 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸
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Can't wait to meet some of my fave Marxists in May! Don't forget to send us your abstract 💖
📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸
January 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Can't wait to meet some of my fave Marxists in May! Don't forget to send us your abstract 💖
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The London launch event for my book 'Eros and Empire' will be happening in Whitechapel on Friday, March 14!
Please do come if you're around! You'll get to hear from
@aycacu.bsky.social, Abeera Khan, and Nivi Manchanda, sooooooo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...
Please do come if you're around! You'll get to hear from
@aycacu.bsky.social, Abeera Khan, and Nivi Manchanda, sooooooo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...
Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the US
Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press). This event is open to all.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The London launch event for my book 'Eros and Empire' will be happening in Whitechapel on Friday, March 14!
Please do come if you're around! You'll get to hear from
@aycacu.bsky.social, Abeera Khan, and Nivi Manchanda, sooooooo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...
Please do come if you're around! You'll get to hear from
@aycacu.bsky.social, Abeera Khan, and Nivi Manchanda, sooooooo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...
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Yay!! The @lawsocialchange.bsky.social Law & Marxism Spring School is happening again, and we can't wait!
Please help us share our call for abstracts 💖 Please reach out if you have any questions
Please help us share our call for abstracts 💖 Please reach out if you have any questions
😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊
January 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Yay!! The @lawsocialchange.bsky.social Law & Marxism Spring School is happening again, and we can't wait!
Please help us share our call for abstracts 💖 Please reach out if you have any questions
Please help us share our call for abstracts 💖 Please reach out if you have any questions
Yes it’s here!!!
😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊
January 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yes it’s here!!!
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Le congrès Historical Materialism Paris aura lieu du 26 au 28 juin sous le titre : "Conjurer la catastrophe". Voici l'appel à communications qui s'adresse à toutes celles et ceux - chercheurs·es ou militant·es - qui s'inscrivent dans le cadre du marxisme
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/histor...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/histor...
Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025) : Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe - Historical Materialism
[scroll down for the English version] Le dernier « Congrès Marx International » a eu lieu à Paris en 2010. Depuis lors, dans l’espace francophone, aucune conférence internationale s’inscrivant explici...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
January 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Le congrès Historical Materialism Paris aura lieu du 26 au 28 juin sous le titre : "Conjurer la catastrophe". Voici l'appel à communications qui s'adresse à toutes celles et ceux - chercheurs·es ou militant·es - qui s'inscrivent dans le cadre du marxisme
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/histor...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/histor...
Watch this space, Kittens and Comrades!!! and Comrades who are Kittens.
Our favourite cats are back, and that can only mean one thing. Watch this space, comrades! 😻📣
January 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Watch this space, Kittens and Comrades!!! and Comrades who are Kittens.
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We are getting ready for the best event of the year, comrades!
Follow @lawsocialchange.bsky.social so you won't miss the latest news, and help us spread the word 💖
@riverbaars.bsky.social
Follow @lawsocialchange.bsky.social so you won't miss the latest news, and help us spread the word 💖
@riverbaars.bsky.social
Our favourite cats are back, and that can only mean one thing. Watch this space, comrades! 😻📣
January 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are getting ready for the best event of the year, comrades!
Follow @lawsocialchange.bsky.social so you won't miss the latest news, and help us spread the word 💖
@riverbaars.bsky.social
Follow @lawsocialchange.bsky.social so you won't miss the latest news, and help us spread the word 💖
@riverbaars.bsky.social
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📢Qomrades!! 🎥 Recording of our fabulous Trans Femme Futures event with Nat Raha, Mijke van der Drift and @riverbaars.bsky.social is available now for your pleasure and inspiration 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZu...
Trans Femme Futures x CLSC and QTHoMo 7/11/24
YouTube video by Centre for Law & Social Change
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November 25, 2024 at 2:56 PM
📢Qomrades!! 🎥 Recording of our fabulous Trans Femme Futures event with Nat Raha, Mijke van der Drift and @riverbaars.bsky.social is available now for your pleasure and inspiration 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZu...